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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to bugs, just like other types of software systems. A significant uptick in using DNN, and its applications in wide-ranging areas, including safety-critical systems, warrant extensive research on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Ali Ghanbari , Deepak-George Thomas , Muhammad Arbab Arshad , Hridesh Rajan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to "backdoor" poisoning attacks, in which an adversary implants a secret trigger into an otherwise normally functioning model. Detection of backdoors in trained models without access to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Todd Huster , Emmanuel Ekwedike

Motivated by the transformative impact of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various domains, researchers and anti-virus vendors have proposed DNNs for malware detection from raw bytes that do not require manual feature engineering. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Keane Lucas , Mahmood Sharif , Lujo Bauer , Michael K. Reiter , Saurabh Shintre

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful nonlinear architectures that are known to be robust to random perturbations of the input. However, these models are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations--small input changes crafted explicitly to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-17 Reuben Feinman , Ryan R. Curtin , Saurabh Shintre , Andrew B. Gardner

We introduce a new attack against face verification systems based on Deep Neural Networks (DNN). The attack relies on the introduction into the network of a hidden backdoor, whose activation at test time induces a verification error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Wei Guo , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni

Adversarial examples are maliciously modified inputs created to fool deep neural networks (DNN). The discovery of such inputs presents a major issue to the expansion of DNN-based solutions. Many researchers have already contributed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Alessandro Cennamo , Ido Freeman , Anton Kummert

DNN is presenting human-level performance for many complex intelligent tasks in real-world applications. However, it also introduces ever-increasing security concerns. For example, the emerging adversarial attacks indicate that even very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Qi Liu , Tao Liu , Zihao Liu , Yanzhi Wang , Yier Jin , Wujie Wen

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are ubiquitous and span a variety of applications ranging from image classification to real-time object detection. As DNN models become more sophisticated, the computational cost of training these models becomes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Bernard Ghanem

Deep neural networks (DNN) have been widely deployed in various applications. However, many researches indicated that DNN is vulnerable to backdoor attacks. The attacker can create a hidden backdoor in target DNN model, and trigger the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Mingfu Xue , Can He , Shichang Sun , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

In this work, we propose the first backdoor attack to graph neural networks (GNN). Specifically, we propose a \emph{subgraph based backdoor attack} to GNN for graph classification. In our backdoor attack, a GNN classifier predicts an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Zaixi Zhang , Jinyuan Jia , Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Backdoor learning is a critical research topic for understanding the vulnerabilities of deep neural networks. While the diffusion model (DM) has been broadly deployed in public over the past few years, the understanding of its backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Weilin Lin , Nanjun Zhou , Yanyun Wang , Jianze Li , Hui Xiong , Li Liu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become a powerful toolfor a wide range of problems. Yet recent work has found an increasing variety of adversarial samplesthat can fool them. Most existing detection mechanisms against adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Ilia Shumailov , Yiren Zhao , Robert Mullins , Ross Anderson

As deep neural networks power increasingly critical applications, stealthy backdoor attacks, where poisoned training inputs trigger malicious model behaviour while appearing benign, pose a severe security risk. Many existing defences are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nam Le , Leo Yu Zhang , Kewen Liao , Shirui Pan , Wei Luo

As backdoor attacks become more stealthy and robust, they reveal critical weaknesses in current defense strategies: detection methods often rely on coarse-grained feature statistics, and purification methods typically require full…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Man Hu , Yahui Ding , Yatao Yang , Liangyu Chen , Yanhao Jia , Shuai Zhao

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: carefully constructed perturbations to an image can seriously impair classification accuracy, while being imperceptible to humans. While there has been a significant amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Can Bakiskan , Metehan Cekic , Ahmet Dundar Sezer , Upamanyu Madhow

Trojan (backdoor) attack is a form of adversarial attack on deep neural networks where the attacker provides victims with a model trained/retrained on malicious data. The backdoor can be activated when a normal input is stamped with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Siyuan Cheng , Yingqi Liu , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Deep learning is becoming increasingly popular in real-life applications, especially in natural language processing (NLP). Users often choose training outsourcing or adopt third-party data and models due to data and computation resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xuan Sheng , Zhaoyang Han , Piji Li , Xiangmao Chang

Backdoor attack injects malicious behavior to models such that inputs embedded with triggers are misclassified to a target label desired by the attacker. However, natural features may behave like triggers, causing misclassification once…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yingqi Liu , Guangyu Shen , Guanhong Tao , Zhenting Wang , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) underpin critical applications yet remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks, typically reliant on heuristic brute-force methods. Despite significant empirical advancements in backdoor research, the lack of rigorous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Zhou Feng , Jiahao Chen , Chunyi Zhou , Yuwen Pu , Tianyu Du , Jinbao Li , Jianhai Chen , Shouling Ji

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have played a key role in a wide range of machine learning applications. However, DNN classifiers are vulnerable to human-imperceptible adversarial perturbations, which can cause them to misclassify inputs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Jeffrey Z. Pan , Nicholas Zufelt
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